Jesus is giving his final public sermon as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew. In this final public sermon Jesus proclaims a series of woes upon the religious leaders. The first three problems that Jesus identified all had to do with their words not matching their actions. They would teach God’s law but not practice those teachings themselves. They did things for the show, trying to promote themselves as religious teachers who should receive the recognition of others. They made is hard for people to enter the kingdom because their lives were so polluted with their hypocrisy. We are now going to look at the final four ways that Jesus says the religious leaders were acting as hypocrites and apply those lessons to our lives…
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